The event in question is Touhou Kamuisai 7, a regional Touhou event which was scheduled to be held in Sapporo on February.

However, the event’s organisers report police and the venue forced them to cancel as a result of what happened at Comiket and missives sent to the event itself:

As a result of the influence of the threats, due to various circumstances our venue, the Teisen Hall (mostly used for pro-wrestling it would seem), contacted us to discuss suspending the event.

We discussed the matter with them, but the demands of the venue and local police to cancel the event were so strong we had no choice but to cancel.

Further clarification of this excruciatingly vague explanation was forthcoming after speculation about the nature of the threat (it was thought the event might have been cancelled just because of what happened with Kuroko) ran rampant online:

Unfortunately, our explanation of it being due to ‘various circumstances’ caused much confusion. This was inexcusable.

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The reason for the cancellation was that the Kamuisai itself received threats.

Without going into details as to the content of the threat the Teisen Hall reported receiving, there was a threat against the event and the police and venue’s operators then demanded we cancel it.

We did discuss a plan involving heightened security with guards and baggage checks, but as there is bowling alley next to the venue, it was decided it should be cancelled out of concern for the safety of those patrons.

They also formally reported the incident to police, but if their record in similar cases is anything to go by not much can expected from them – despite the culprit actually attending Comiket and leaving threatening letters in the hall, they have still yet to announce any progress.

There is considerable suspicion that the event’s cancellation is a direct result of the precedent set by Comiket in yielding completely to the terrorist threats it received, and that now any such event is entirely at the mercy of crazies sending threatening letters to their venue:

“Just as expected…”

“They gave in?”

“Obviously a copycat inspired by what happened at Comiket.”

“Expect more. The police probably want to eradicate doujin events in any case.”

“First Kuroko fans, now Touhou otaku…”

“I don’t care about this event, but you can’t just give in like this. It’s inviting more of the same.”

“There is actually a Kuroko event at the same venue two weeks earlier.”

“So the Kuroko fujoshi and Touhou otaku are squaring off against each other…”

“How useless are the police for allowing this stuff to go on?”

“That area is now the most unsafe part of Sapporo, so it’s obvious that station is staffed by total incompetents.”

“Our police are too busy forcing people accused of brushing up against schoolgirls to confess to groping to bother with such inconsequential matters.”

“The cops are desperate to shut these events down and with Abe and his cronies back in things are only going to get worse.”

“They aren’t even investigating this stuff. Unless something actually happens they will do nothing.”

“Just because they have not said or done anything doesn’t mean they aren’t investigating this at all, does it?”

“This is exactly what the criminal wanted… now all these events are vulnerable to random cancellations because of threats like this.”

“Everyone was saying Touhou would be next, but because they were just a bunch of fujoshi the first time nobody took things seriously. Somebody is just going to start sending letters to every event and that will be the end of things.”

Wasn’t this threat shit over some fucking stupid basketball manga? WTF? I belive this shit is just Japanese government trying to shutdown what they down like. Ishitara abusing his power because no one buys his books anymore.

In fact, “blackmailing” in Japan isn’t too hard at all since almost all of the higher-ups are corrupt to the core and they leave more traces than a horde of elephants in a cheesecake manufacture.

For those who don’t know: Forced socializing events in Japan are an easy way to witness pure corruption. That place is a veritable wonderland for possible court cases. Too bad that the general populace is living on its knees.

First they came for the Kuroko doujins, I did not speak out because I was not a fujoshi.

Then they came for the Touhou doujins, I did not speak out because I was not a Touhou otaku.

Then they came for the rape and guro doujins, I did not speak out because I was not into rape and guro.

And when they came for the ordinary doujins, there was no one left to speak for me.

In other words, you 2ch otakus should stop moaning and actually start a protest or something. You were so fired up in your anti-Korean and anti-Chinese protests, so why can’t you do the same for something that you actually like?

Yeah, if this is their response to unsubstantiated threats without any proof whatsoever that they could actually carry out the threats, there’s no way Tokyo could handle an event that will have legitimate nutcases making legitimate threats that they will actually be able to make good on.

Please do so. It would be interesting to see how they react to a counter-threat. If they so easily drop their pants and bend over to accomodate one ‘terrorist’, I suppose they would be most happen to wet their lips and BJ the other.

f****n pussies. here we never give in to terrorist threats. we hunt them down and shoot them. well its time for otaku to do what the police are too scared to do. find and assrape the terrorist. then again its easy to abuse this info. just say whenever a guy is going to be accused of schoolgirl groping then they will blow up a police precinct if they plan to go after him

Exactly. Considering how much weaponry Japanese don’t have access to I’m betting nothing. We’d get bomb threats at our schools all the time and school was never canceled because of it. When the culprits were finally arrested turned out it was a bunch of stupid kids. 15 mph winds canceled more school then those idiots.

After Kuroko they were expecting what?
Sounds like a political agenda.
It’s easy enough to cancel events… just make some anonymous threat which the police seems absolutely incompetent (or more likely unwilling) to trace anyways, and the event is cancelled.
Since politicians and the police don’t want to deal with such events, it’s the perfect excuse to close them up – “we’re doing it for your safety”.
Only it seems they don’t understand how bad this is for the image of the police and politicians in a broader spectrum.
What they should be doing is enabling the event to happen, strenghtening security, and arresting supposed terrorists.
Things like that tends to spread over other non-related issues. If some terrorist alone has the power to close big events, with police caving in and all, soon all events – otaku/otome related or not – will receive terrorists threats of some kind.
Think concerts, events related to international diplomacy, among others.
And of course politicians who doesn’t like some aspects of it’s society could also simply fabricate some threats to stop them.
It’s an assault on freedom of speech and freedom overall. It’s not simply cancelling an event, the issue is far deeper. Japan is revealing itself as a country that can’t guarantee it’s citizens’ rights.
A minority, or even one person alone, telling what people should or should not do.
They shouldn’t have complied to terrorist demands on Kuroko, since the obvious consequence is this.
If the police can’t protect and respond properly to such threats, things will escalate.
When it finally reaches stuff politicians and most of society does give a damn (because obviously, they are only cancelling those events because they consider them to be small, for a minority, and not important), it’ll be too late.
This is why the primary directive when dealing with terrorists, criminals and kidnappers stands true: We don’t negotiate, period. Whatever the consequences are, because we are defending principles worth taking the risk. No matter how dangerous things could get – and if they get dangerous then it’s time for a reform in police or politics – this is the last line of defence on the people’s freedom and way of living.

From the informations flying around on the net, the culprit is a gay male who is having a serious case of self-entitlement after having a crush on some basketball guy few years ago, and one of the characters from Kuroko reminded him him. So he wants the author to apologise. Absolutely logical, eh?

It’s probably easier to ban the event than searching for a culprit (it is less work and easier for police so busy looking suicidal and molesters of little girls):\
Maybe it was the Ishihara, was dismissed as the only way to ruin events is by letter of threat.
Hopefully the otakus find this troll and give this sucker a lesson!!